Military Emcs: Implications for Utilities, Cities, and Energy Services

. This paper discusses possible extensions of energy monitoring and control systems (EMCS) to a high level control for many buildings over a large area (large scale EMCS). Extensions of current EMCS approaches appear to be emerging technologies. lnitial awareness of possibilities for such extensions was generated as a resuIt of a study conducted on the effectiveness of EMCS used by the U.S. Army. Further interest was generated upon learning about other systems that make use of extended control to many buildings over a large area. An overview of certain factors that appear to have an impact for the large scale EMCS concept, limited trend data available on energy and cost savings for the military-systems that were evaluated, operational and maintenance considerations that impact use of the large scale EMCS, a discussion of some implications for potential future use of large scale EMCS, and recommendations for possible future work on study and implementation of such systems are presented. The concept of large scale EMCS offers important challenges and opportunities for utilities, cities, and energy services to advance the art and science ofbuilding energy and comfort control. We hope the large scale EMCS concept can lead to useful, real applications that provide benefits for many people and organizations. Significant benefits appear possible for extensions of . present EMCS technologies, and significant work is needed to understand and promote these potential benefits.